A Greenhorn's View of a Big City Boss
An Essay About Ray Hartmann, creator of The Riverfront Times and St. Louis Magazine I started at the Riverfront Times as a fresh out of college greenhorn. At twenty-four, I did have four years of working at a daily newspaper in my small hometown under my belt, but getting this job as an ad designer was almost a fluke. My schooling didn't really prepare me for the new dawning computer age newspapers were growing into. One QuarkXPress design-a-magazine class and my ability to old-school paste-up the classifieds sealed the deal. I couldn't tell you if my new big boss, Ray Hartmann was in that initial meeting or not. It was my first big trip to the city and I was about to have a crash course in reality. Honestly, I didn't see Ray as much as many others did. But what I did get to glimpse of him showed me that he really cared about his employees. Many of our deadline days went long into the night. And when there were concerns about the safety of employees going to their cars, R...